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ADL Letter to Newsweek
Note: This letter appeared in Newsweek on September 14, 2009.
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August 21, 2009 |
To the Editor:
Your list of countries (Back Story, Aug. 24 & 31) once controlled by Britain that have ongoing conflicts misrepresents Israel's history and manages--in the space of one sentence--to get mostly wrong the facts about the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The most egregious error is the assertion that the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan was "rejected by both sides." That is utterly false: the Zionist leadership accepted the plan, while the Arabs rejected it outright.
If only the Arabs had accepted the plan instead of going to war. Today, there might have been two states for two peoples, one Palestinian and one Israeli, thereby negating the need for an entry on your list.
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Sincerely,
Abraham H. Foxman
National Director
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